How to Use spiritual in a Sentence

spiritual

1 of 2 adjective
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  • France will always be the spiritual home of wine lovers.
  • Doctors must consider the emotional and spiritual needs of their patients.
  • I regularly consult our pastor about spiritual matters.
  • The Romantic composers saw Beethoven as a spiritual ancestor.
  • Berry starts out with her own attempt to make the wolf her spiritual kin.
    — Colin Dickey, The New Republic, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Big Love attempts to liven things up with a rap that goes off the spiritual rails.
    — Bethonie Butler, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2023
  • Having a large breed dog in such a spiritual place like Japan, with all its temples and shrines, is unique.
    — Rachel Chang and Thomas Panek, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2024
  • The night-side of our lives—that is, the occult, the spiritual world—continues to fascinate me.
    — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
  • What was supposed to be just a press trip felt like a spiritual retreat.
    — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 3 Nov. 2023
  • There are spiritual lessons in the somber mood, and a sudden absence of music and flowers from mass.
    — Kendra Vaculin, Bon Appétit, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The National Day of Prayer, said Rosenberg, would bring spiritual fruit to the hostages, soldiers, those who mourn — and the nation as a whole.
    — Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 4 Nov. 2023
  • The Great star plays River, a spiritual woman engaged to the youngest Lafayette sibling.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 19 Dec. 2023
  • And for a full two years prior to that, I had been flung into a spiritual awakening.
    — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 14 Oct. 2023
  • The clip shows a peaceful start as the women take part in a spiritual meditation.
    — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Williams sings of the struggle between pain-numbing vices and the urge for some kind of spiritual resolution.
    — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Aries March 21 – April 19 Your spiritual and creative sides can support your goals now.
    — Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 15 Jan. 2024
  • There was a conversation going on with the band that was spiritual.
    — Nancy Kruh, Peoplemag, 11 Nov. 2023
  • Now, the spiritual successor to her 2002 breakout album This Is Me...
    — Chris Malone Méndez, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
  • But the man who served as their spiritual lodestar, who strode with purpose through their dreams and desires, operated in the Elizabethan years.
    — Chris Vognar, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2023
  • If such steps aren't taken, there could be health and spiritual consequences.
    — The Arizona Republic, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Shields has a spiritual side that many scientists shun.
    — Ramin Skibba, WIRED, 11 July 2023
  • In the movie, Priscilla’s pleas result in Elvis burning his collection of spiritual texts.
    — Shannon Carlin, TIME, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Moss, a chaplain, had spent the year working as the spiritual adviser to Phillip Hancock, a death row inmate in Oklahoma.
    — Emma Goldberg Desiree Rios, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2024
  • The building was a focus for the community’s social and spiritual life.
    — John Hanc, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Its anti-heartbreak, pro-labor, loosely spiritual jams are made for the softest, loungiest club or doing the wavy-arm dance on your couch.
    — Pitchfork, 12 Dec. 2023
  • With much spiritual guidance and prayer, my family and I have made a decision for my future.
    — Ben Thomas | Bthomas@al.com, al, 11 July 2023
  • Its pastors preach a different approach to spiritual life, one that’s plain to see this time of year, during the holiest days on the Christian calendar.
    — Dan Horn, The Enquirer, 20 Mar. 2024
  • The mental and spiritual satisfaction that comes from knowing what good food is and how food can be good for our minds and hearts is irreplaceable.
    — TIME, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The self-help author and former spiritual adviser to Oprah Winfrey is the first Democrat to formally enter the race.
    — Maggie Haberman, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The spiritual advisor, if any, will be escorted from the chamber.
    — Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 28 Aug. 2023
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spiritual

2 of 2 noun
  • The congregation sang hymns and spirituals.
  • The song’s origins have been traced to spirituals at the turn of the 20th century.
    — Ben Sisario, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2017
  • The score to this work mixes blues, spirituals, garage rock and more.
    — Tim Smith, baltimoresun.com, 4 Aug. 2017
  • The rest of their 80-minute recital at the DuSable Museum will hold arias, songs and spirituals.
    — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 20 Feb. 2018
  • DuPont will present a recital of art songs, spirituals and gospels by both female and male black composers on June 26.
    — Elizabeth Nonemaker, baltimoresun.com, 13 June 2019
  • The crowd lit candles as someone played a recording of an old spiritual.
    — New York Times, 28 Feb. 2021
  • To have been in an audience who had never before heard the harmonies of a spiritual.
    — New York Times, 5 Mar. 2021
  • His church members sang Southern spirituals and gospel songs, auctioned off a quilt, and raised around $2,000 for their sister city.
    — Kim Cross, Southern Living, 10 Aug. 2011
  • Meacham and McGraw move as gingerly through the spirituals of the Civil War years as two white men might be expected to.
    — Allison Stewart, chicagotribune.com, 11 July 2019
  • His church members sang Southern spirituals and gospel songs, auctioned off a quilt, and raised around $2,000 for their sister city.
    — Kim Cross, Southern Living, 16 Feb. 2015
  • And many of the songs sung are rooted in African American spirituals passed down from enslaved ancestors.
    — Andrew J. Yawn, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2020
  • The troupe’s fresh take on the art form — drawing on blues, spirituals and gospel for inspiration — changed the perception of American dance.
    — Matthew J. Palm, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 July 2018
  • All three actors have rich voices that fill the small theater with the sounds of African American spirituals and civil rights anthems.
    — Emily McClanathan, Chicago Tribune, 5 May 2023
  • Mavis was just a kid when The Staples Singers got their start performing spirituals at Chicago churches, then made their name touring and recording as a gospel act.
    — Julia Felsenthal, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2017
  • Plus their wide-ranging repertoire includes blues, rags, spirituals, and more.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Later, more sparks fly when the two argue over whether African-American spirituals functioned as coded maps to freedom for slaves.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2019
  • As the night’s conductor of spirituals, Solange made self-sabotage and pain sound so bittersweet.
    — Adelle Platon, Billboard, 10 Nov. 2019
  • The work merges Black spirituals with ballet and contemporary dance.
    — Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023
  • Elvis did the traditional Black spiritual as part of a gospel medley for his late ’60s network comeback special.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 17 June 2022
  • The spirituals, which arose from the misery of slavery, were then resurrected, by the Fisk Jubilee Singers, from the postbellum period into the turn of the century.
    — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Expect a program ranging from Bach to black spirituals.
    — Amy Wang, OregonLive.com, 13 July 2017
  • Indeed, Ailey’s 1960 masterwork to gospel songs and spirituals will close each of the company’s three programs in Costa Mesa.
    — Laura Bleiberg, latimes.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • The New Moon also regularly hosts small events and offers one-on-one spiritual and soul coaching classes.
    — Anne Nickoloff, cleveland, 23 Oct. 2020
  • The program includes songs of the Easter Season and Pentecost as well as spirituals, folk songs and patriotic hymns.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2019
  • Though the score evokes spirituals, jazz, folk songs, ragtime and Dixieland, the elements of musical theater came through most strongly in this performance, led with brio by Stephen Lord.
    — New York Times, 13 June 2018
  • With Bob, there is a kind of ascetic renunciation in his suffering that borders on the spiritual.
    — New York Times, 25 May 2022
  • The group moved slowly throughout the campus, singing spirituals and observing a moment of silence for the three people killed during the violent weekend.
    — Megan Friedman, Esquire, 17 Aug. 2017
  • Morrison was born in Lorain, Ohio, in 1931, the daughter of a welder and a homemaker who encouraged her to read literature and taught her folktales and spirituals at home.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Strictly observant Jews fast from sundown to sundown to transcend the physical and focus on the spiritual.
    — Bert Stratton, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2022
  • My elementary music teacher, Diane Davenport, brought the rhythms of my ancestors and the spirituals of my history in front of a mostly white class for all of us to learn.
    — Teen Vogue, 10 July 2017

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